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What's the best Kurupt album in your opinion?

Kuruption!
Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha
Space Boogie: Smoke Oddessey
Against tha Grain
Same Day Different Shit?
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Rick James

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Best Kurupt album?
« on: December 25, 2008, 08:30:59 PM »
What iz the best Kurupt album in your opinion? Me, I would say Kuruption! is his best album
there were some fillers but overall its a pretty good album
Highlights of the album in my opinion are: Play My Cards, We Can Freak It, Ho's a Housewife, and The Life
 

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Re: Best Kurupt album?
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2008, 08:42:46 PM »
Tha Streetz. Better production, more focused, one of the best if not the best dpg member solo album of all time.
 

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Re: Best Kurupt album?
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2008, 08:49:03 PM »
Streetz iz a mutha easily.great production,kurupt spit some of his most venomist lyrics in his career.plus great cameos from everyone from daz to crooked I.Not a weak song on the album.its my favorite solo record from a dpg member other then doggystyle.kuruption felt unfocused too many fillers.
 

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Re: Best Kurupt album?
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2008, 09:10:43 PM »
Streez or Space Boogie, they both have their individual high points. I got to be honest though, it's a hard choice, I like all Kurupt's albums.

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Re: Best Kurupt album?
« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2008, 10:11:07 PM »
Well this is a tough decision, and if you include "The Frank & Jess Story" as a solo effort, my list is as follows:

Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha
Kuruption!
Space Boogie: Smoke Oddessey
Against tha Grain
Frank & Jess
SDDS

Tha Streetz is a CLASSIC album. Kurupt and all his guests come correct, as well as the producers. Vintage dogg pound sound with vintage Kurupt lyrics.

Kuruption is a near classic, but suffers from a few filler tracks and many whack-ass guests, but songs such as "It's a Set-Up" and "We Can Freak It" do more than redeem for its shortcomings

Space Boogie has some of Kurupt's whackest tracks and lyrics, but on the other hand produces some of his most unique work. While "It's Over" sounds like a Sesame Street song, "Can't Go Wrong" and "Kuruption" prove Young Gotti's versatility and innovativeness in song creation.

Against tha Grain is a slept on album. The beats are insane, and Kurupts raspy voice combined with the venom pumping through his veins at the time produce some hard-hitting tracks. His lyrics on the album are below his high standards, keeping it from achieving the quality of his first three releases.

Frank & Jess has the opposite problem of ATG. His lyrics reflect a maturity and skill his most recent work had lacked, but the J Silva beats aren't on par.

SDDS is just average, with its few standout tracks muddled by phoned-in performances. Daz comes hard behind the boards for the most part, but lyrically this is Kurupt's worst.
 

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Re: Best Kurupt album?
« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2008, 10:21:30 PM »
Definitely Tha Streetz, the production was more focused as D~Nice said . And there weren't too many filler tracks.
But Kuruption has its share of hard hittin tracks.
 

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Re: Best Kurupt album?
« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2008, 10:26:36 PM »
Definitely Tha Streetz, the production was more focused as D~Nice said . And there weren't too many filler tracks.
But Kuruption has its share of hard hittin tracks.

I actually think lyrically Kuruption had some crazy lines and quotables and as a whole has more of that wow factor you would get from Kurupt lyrically, but Tha Streetz is just simply a better piece of work to me. Now if Kurupt could have got a Pete Rock or a Dj Premier on Kuruption I think the product would have been different. I really don't have many gripes beatwise on the west disc.
 

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« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2008, 02:22:16 AM »
Gotta go with Streetz Iz A Mutha but I think Against Tha Grain was very underrated and slept on - I liked that raw Kurupt shit...
 

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Re: Best Kurupt album?
« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2008, 04:50:59 AM »
My favorite is without a doubt "Tha Streetz Iz A Mutha" classic from the beginning to the end
"Space Boogie: Smoke Odessey" is a great record as well with a huge Fredwreck participation
"Kuruption" is a good record, several bangers on it
then I really love the "Digital Smoke" with J. Wells even if Kurupt aint on every songs
The DPG version of "Against The Grain" was pretty coo too with "Load Up" Kurupt version and all
"Against The Grain" by Tha Row had a couple bangers, I think its a ok release
"Against The Grain EP" was coo
"Same Day, Different Shit" is a disapointement, I was expectin better when it drops, a couple good songs tho
I though "Frank & Jess" was coo at the beginning but now I think its average
I dont have that much memories about "Originals" except for a couple joints with Suga Free but it wasnt so bad
and I dont remember about "Tsunami" mixtape
 

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Re: Best Kurupt album?
« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2008, 05:00:03 AM »
I've always favored Space Boogie :)
 

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Re: Best Kurupt album?
« Reply #10 on: December 26, 2008, 05:08:00 AM »
voted: Tha Streetz Iz A Mutha
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Re: Best Kurupt album?
« Reply #11 on: December 26, 2008, 06:09:34 AM »
tha streetz is kurupt's best album hands down. no other solo album he's released is more cohesive and well put together.
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Re: Best Kurupt album?
« Reply #12 on: December 26, 2008, 07:36:38 AM »
Tha Streetz. Better production, more focused, one of the best if not the best dpg member solo album of all time.

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Re: Best Kurupt album?
« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2008, 07:44:03 AM »
Tha Streetz iz a Mutha - my favorite album of all time and the best Kurupt album 8)

Kuruption had better lyrics more of Kurupt recording tracks closer to his peak years '97-'98 but was a unfocused seemed like kind of a rushed project and would be inconsistent from track to track but he killed tracks like Fresh, Game. It's A Set Up, Light Shit Up

matter fact the whole east disc was pretty much Kurupt at his best minus a couple of fillers, he and El Drex made a good combo

 

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Re: Best Kurupt album?
« Reply #14 on: December 26, 2008, 11:22:34 AM »
Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha